Person-Centered Approaches to Care – Part 2

This episode of Truth, Lies & Alzheimer’s features part two of host Lisa Skinner’s discussion of person-centered approaches to care. Lisa discusses reminiscence therapy, an innovative caregiving approach that involves discussing memories and past experiences with a person by utilizing prompts such as photographs or music to evoke memories and stimulate conversation.

Reminiscence therapy can help a person with dementia reconnect with their lives and even help provide closure for past impactful events. Lisa tells the story of a creative memory care director who used reminiscence therapy to diffuse a patient’s anxiety by recreating his bedroom in the dementia unit to look like his office from when he practiced law.

We are providing the Autio Interview with Lisa Skinner on the discussion of Person-Centered Approaches to Care: